Early Student Registers

The Queen’s College/University student registers were used to record information about students attending the institution. The earliest register (1842-1859) was written in a hard-cover book and noted the name, age, year of study, place of birth, preparatory school, father’s occupation, faculty, and where the student currently lived. Uniquely, much of the information in this book was recorded in Latin, although it did change into English by the end of the register. There were no official student numbers assigned at this time. The next set of registers were recorded in books that were officially printed for Queen’s. Each page has “University of Queen’s College – Register of Students” across the top, and there are columns with specific headers. It was at this time that student numbers were assigned, although not chronologically at first for the graduated students were added to this register at a later date. Eventually, the registers were redesigned to add room for the student’s marks to be recorded too. These registers were used up to 1907, after which time individual student cards were used.